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The Netherlands beat Wales 2-0, while England were held to a 2-2 draw by Ecuador
More football news from the World Cup preparations,
Three warm-up matches wrapped up earlier today with 2010 tournament finalist the Netherlands beating Wales 2-nil.
Roy Hodgson's England were held to a 2-2 draw by Ecuador.
The lively friendly wasn't all desirable as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to twist a knee during the game, putting his participation in the World Cup finals in doubt.
But Roy Hodgson said he could come to terms with it.
I'm disappointed with a potential injury to one of our players. But as a friendly match, as a warm-up match, it answered all of the things that we were looking for."
England's final warm-up game will be against Honduras this Saturday in Miami.
The team have been drawn with Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in Group D.
Also this morning, Argentina made easy work of Trinidad and Tobago 3-nil in their penultimate warm-up in Buenos Aires.
Argentina face Slovenia in their warm-up game on Saturday before beginning their campaign with the Group F clash against tournament debutants Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15th June.
Alibaba becomes a co-owner of Guangzhou Evergrande
Starting off with a blockbuster event in Chinese football,
China's largest e-commerce giant Alibaba has become a part owner of the country's top football club Guangzhou Evergrande, with a 1.2 billion yuan investment.
Alibaba has made the investment, which is roughly 190 million US dollars, in order to acquire a 50 percent stake in the Asian Championship's top club.
Evergrande's owner Xu Jiayin says having Alibaba onboard will help consolidate Guangzhou's supremacy in the Chinese Super League and give the club more means to make its footprint on the world football stage.
Evergrande's rise to Asian prominance has stunned many.
The club was promoted to the country's top flight back in 2011, and won the title in the very season before they went on to successfully defend the crown in the next two consecutive seasons.
Last year the club, under much famed world cup winning coach Marcello Lippi, claimed the Asian Champions League title, becoming China's first Asian champions since the country launched the professional league in 1994.
Maria Sharapova faces Eugenie Bouchard in semifinal at Roland Garros
Coming up in the French Open tennis championship,
Seventh seed Maria Sharapova will be fighting for her place in the final when she takes on Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in just over an hour from now.
20-year-old Bouchard came into the match with a three-set rout of Spaniard Carla Surez Navarro in their quarterfinal meeting and became the first ever Canadian woman to reach the last four at Roland Garros.
Sharapova, who went down to Serena Wlilliams in the final last year, will be searching for her second title at Roland Garros, having won her first in 2012.
Also tonight, fourth seed Simona Halep will engage Germany's Andrea Petkovic in the other semifinal.
Both players will be appearing in their first grand slam semifinals.
Romanian Halep cruised into the last four after dispatching former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in two straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
Petkovic reached the semifinals after outplaying 10th seed Sara Errani of Italy with the same score.
Earlier in the men's draw,
Clay king and defending champion Rafael Nadal got the better of his compatriot David Ferrer in four sets 4-6, 6-4, 6-love, 6-1 to claim his semifinal berth.
Ferrer, who was seeded fifth in the tournament, said he simply lost concentration after the second set.
"Well, I think it was not a good match for both players. We did a lot of mistakes, first and second set. I lost the second set. In the third I lost my concentration, my focus. I did a lot of mistakes. It was my fault. Anyway, Rafael, in the third and the fourth he played better and did less mistakes."
Ferrer's defeat helped Nadal stay on course for his fifth consecutive title at Roland Garros.
But before that happens, he will take on Britain's number one player Andy Murray in the final four.
Murray became the latest to join the last four, for the first time in two years, after he knocked out Frenchman Gael Monfils in five sets 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 1-6, 6-love.
The match-up between Nadal and Murray will take place after the other semifinal between second seed Novak Djokovic and Latvia's Ernests Gulbis.
San Antonio and Miami gear up for finals showdown
In basketball,
After a brief recess, the San Antonio Spurs and defending chamipions Miami are now ready to get down to business as the opening game of their best-of-seven NBA Final is just hours away.
San Antonio power forward Tim Duncan said earlier that the Spurs would not repeat last year's heartbreaking, seven-game loss to Miami.
But Heat forward LeBron James said he didn't believe that motivation matters much once the game begins.
"You know I think they are motivated, I think motivation can only go so far, how much motivation can carry you to a championship, I'm not sure, at the end of the day, five, ten guys on the floor, three refs and one basketball, you got to make plays, I can't shoot the ball and say motivation will make it go in."
Miami are seeking a third straight championship, having beaten the Spurs last season and Oklahoma City in 2012 for the title.
But unlike last year's finals, the Spurs will have the home-court advantage to start, as the first two games of the series are in San Antonio and the next two are in Miami.
Off the court,
It's now been confirmed that embattled L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to sign off on selling the team to fomer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Sterling's attorney says Sterling has approved a deal negotiated by his wife Shelly Sterling to sell the team, and has also decided to drop his lawsuit against the league.
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